Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for stopping by. This space is where I share research, reflections, and practical tools drawn from my experience as a marriage and family therapist.
Are you a couple looking for clarity? A professional curious about the science of relationships? Or simply someone interested in how love and resilience work? I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I can help with that.
Each post is written with one goal in mind: to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and the hidden dynamics that shape human connection.
Grab a coffee (or a notebook), explore what speaks to you, and take what’s useful back into your life and relationships. And if a post sparks a question, or makes you realize you could use more support, I’d love to hear from you.
Be Well, Stay Kind, and Godspeed.
~Daniel
P.S.
Feel free to explore the categories below to find past blog posts on the topics that matter most to you. If you’re curious about attachment, navigating conflict, or strengthening intimacy, these archives are a great way to dive deeper into the research and insights that I’ve been sharing for years.
- Attachment Issues
- Coronavirus
- Couples Therapy
- Extramarital Affairs
- Family Life and Parenting
- How to Fight Fair
- Inlaws and Extended Families
- Intercultural Relationships
- Marriage and Mental Health
- Married Life & Intimate Relationships
- Neurodiverse Couples
- Separation & Divorce
- Signs of Trouble
- Social Media and Relationships
- What Happy Couples Know
Will my affair partner come back?
It’s well known how women having affairs with unattainable men flock into individual therapy, often lamenting getting dumped.
Research on the re-ignition of affairs suggests that while some affair partners do reconcile and rekindle their relationship… the likelihood of this happening is relatively low.
What you get when you marry an affair partner…
There are challenging implications for marrying your affair partner.
While your mileage may vary… 5 common themes play out in this challenging situation…
Why do cheaters downgrade? Here are 5 reasons…
As a Marriage and family therapist, I often need to grasp why my client, in conducting an affair, sought out less satisfying relationships.
This is commonly known as downgrading, cheating down, affairing down, or, most cruelly, slumming…
Here are 5 reasons why it happens…
The reddest flag of them all?
This one behavior triples the likelihood you’re being cheated on…
But don’t get your knickers in a twist… you probably got this already…
3 Personality traits tightly correlated with cheating…
Because infidelity is so widespread in American culture, it is studied extremely carefully.
Here are 3 personality traits tightly correlated with infidelity…
Is there such a thing as the “worst” attachment style for infidelity?
Researchers suggest that one attachment style, more than others, presents a greater risk for infidelity.
Is this way of looking at infidelity a good idea?
3 features of genuine forgiveness after an affair
My clients have taught me many things.
Perhaps the most important is that forgiveness is more truly heart-felt, genuine, and enduring when it is earned instead of merely bestowed.
Forgiveness is a shared project. Here are 3 steps toward authentic forgiveness.
Can your partner’s voice indicate their likelihood to cheat on you?
Evolutionary Psychology studies never fail to annoy.
It seems that men with lower voices, and women with higher voices engage in more infidelity?
A better question is why are these vocal registers so attractive?
Professional misconduct: a new indication that your partner is twice as likely to cheat…
For the first time, research correlates professional misconduct with a greater incidents of infidelity.
What is this research telling us about men behaving badly?
New research from Israel on the emotion which inoculates against infidelity…
New research from Israel explains how a specific emotion increased resilience in the face of sudden sexual temptation…
Is there such a thing as a cheating personality?
New research reveals that there are fairly specific traits correlated with increased odds of cheating…
5 Signs her emotional affair is far from over…
Sometimes lonely wives find emotional meaning with a co-worker… here are signs that your wife is struggling with her emotional affair.